Today Senior Crab and I are going to try to go surfing. Yeah...try. See the thing about me and surfing is we've always had this tenuous relationship. I really want to love surfing, I really really do. I remember when my friend moved to Hawaii when we were like 8 or 9 (we'll assume that we were 9 for the sake of argument, though I'm sure she'll send me a message later correcting me LOL!). In my 9 year old brain she was going to go there and learn to surf. Obviously if you live near the beach, you surf, why wouldn't you?!?! I was surprised when we went there and she didn't know how to (yet). She eventually did learn, and now has developed that love of the sport that so many have...that I keep trying to make myself have.
Every time I hear that a friend of mine surfs I try to strike up a conversation with them so we can go together, and I've been with a few of my friends....well I've been "surfing". Back in high school...maybe college, I kept trying to get my boyfriend at the time's friend Mike to take me...I think we even went one time, I caught a wave and it was so much fun! Never stood up though. Later went with my college buddy Chris...again caught waves, never stood up...not for lack of trying though! Chris (D) just got back from a sweet trip in Nicaragua where he stayed in a house on the beach for a week and surfed. I've also gone with my other lab partner from college, Krista.
Surfing with Krista was a really funny story. My coworkers and I had gone to a club the night before, and while waiting for our food to settle had dozed off on the sofa of one of their apartments just sitting there (it was late, I think we stayed until closing). Krista said be at her place at 7 or 8 or something, and I was so determined to be on time, that I had packed my beach stuff. I showed up on time to a barely awake Krista, but that was OK with me! We headed out for a lovely day of surfing (and belly surfing for me LOL). Good times!
I've also been surfing with my coworker Todd down in San Diego. Todd is a really fun guy actually. As soon as I found out he rode motorcycles I knew that we would HAVE to be friends! This guy is the epitome of determination. He learned to surf being dragged behind a boat down a river in North Carolina (hey, they didn't have a beach close enough, and there was no wake boarding yet). He also takes us dirt biking, but that's a story for a different time (of another sport I'm determined to love, along with Rock climbing...it's like I refuse to be boring, I must do exciting things even if it's kinda scary!). Todd is a CRAZY guy too. He goes surfing down in SD all the time, and has been known to go at night when there is a full moon. Once a month over the summer there is a group that gets together to surf and make breakfast in a parking lot down in the SD area, and they are so much fun! Todd is a great instructor, and it's there that we learned to true value of a good wetsuit (especially for my husband!).
So a couple years back my mother's long time (like since my MOM was 11 years old) pen pal's daughter, Laura, came to visit us from England, and I decided it was the perfect time to have a surfing lesson! So a bunch of us got together and took a surfing lesson with her, including Senior Crab. We had so much fun that we bought some boards at Costco and made an appointment to go again....which turned into finding a wet suit to rent, which none of them fit me or Kiefer, or Crab. UGH!! We ended up spending the day searching for wetsuits, which ended successfully with some sale suits from Spyder boards...which have sat in our closets for the last 2 summers. Yup, tags on and everything.
But today is the day! I'm going to cut the tags off of my wet suit (and brush the cat fur off....)throw on my bikini, and we are going to go catch some waves...maybe. It's definitely a sport that I can do with my friends...BUT I NEED TO GO DO IT!
